Savchenko moved to detention center in Rostov region:
Jailed Ukrainian pilot and parliament member Nadia Savchenko has been taken to a detention facility in the city of Shakhty in Rostov region.
Her lawyer Mark Feigin told Interfax on July 25 that Savchenko was already at the detention facility.
TASS reported that her relatives had been informed that she is staying at the Novocherkassk detention center.
An indictment against Savchenko was sent to the Donetsk town court in Rostov region on July 13.
The indictment is due to pave the way for a trial.
Savchenko, who has been jailed since July 2014, says she was illegally brought into Russia after being abducted by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Interfax, TASS)
As Ukraine basks in summer sunshine, the beach resorts on the Sea of Azov are not doing well. The distant rumble of rocket fire and the roadblocks don't make for much of a holiday atmosphere. Bookings have collapsed, and the tourism business is in ruins. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service and Current Time)
Here is today's map of the military situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:
U.S. to start training Ukrainian Army troops:
The United States will begin training Ukrainian Army troops this fall in an expansion of its military involvement in the divided country, the State Department has said.
U.S. troops have already deployed in small numbers to Ukraine to train National Guard forces, but under the new plan would also take on regular military units.
This will bring the total cost of a security assistance package for the embattled country -- locked in a conflict with pro-Russian separatists -- to $244 million since 2014.
But a spokesman said the training would take place in the west of the country, far from the front line in the rebellious east, and did not mark a major change in U.S. strategy.
"This is going to be small unit training...to help strengthen Ukraine's internal defense capabilities," Mark Toner said. "This training is part of our long-running defense cooperation with Ukraine."
Toner said the United States would not be providing new equipment or new weaponry. "Our focus is on...nonlethal aid. And there is no plan to change that." (AFP, Reuters, AP)